The Charlotte Democrat., 1887-12-02
N. C. Items.

81 Miss Mamie, eldest daughter of
Mr. L. Banks Holt, of Grsham, was mar
ried Wednesday to DIR. Geo. Mebane, OF
Mebanesville. Miss Laila Oates, one of
| the brides maids, went down Tuesday
morning. - Greensboro Workman.
W OF the North Carolina soldiers
who served in the war, only ten survive.
They live in Wayne, Warren, Alamance,
Davidson. Franklin, Yadkin, Washington
| and Swain.
az N. c. Bonds are quoted at 12O for
per cents and 80 for 4s.
~ Rev. T. J. Allison has resigned the
pastoral charge of Bingham School Pres
byteriau church and removed to Elmwood,
to assume the pastorate Of two churches
| near there. ..L Esi;.. Il =.
w- Mr. T. J. Patrick, State Immigra-
| tion agent, was in the city yesterday ac-
companied by Mr. D. W. Powell, of Will
| mington, who is on a prospecting trip to
this section in search of purchasable tim.
| Der land in the interest of the lumber busi-
ness. He expressed himself as highly
pleased with Goldsboro and it is probable
| that he will make several purchases
through our land agency Goldsboro Ar-
gus.
W AT the FEBRUARY term of Supreme
court, the County Commissioners of Ruth
erford and Cleveland were enioined from
levying taxes to pay bonds issued to
certain railroad enterprise, and sold by
the projectors of the enterprise to the
Massachusetts and Southern Construction
| Company to third parties. The bondhold-
ers have brought suit in the Federal court
at Charlotte, and the commissioner are
threatened in the pleadings with arrest if
they do not disregard the order of the
State court and levy the taxes to pay the
bonds. On Dec. 18th the Federal court
will meet in-Charlotte, with Judge Bond
presiding. This is square conflict be-
tween the court, aud the issue will be
awaited with interest.
RALEIGH, Nov. 28.-The Federal Court
was opened at three o'clock this afternoon
by Judge Bond, who arrived quite unex-
pectedly on the western train. The case
of A. w. Henderson. involving the ques-
tion of the validity of the drummer's IL
cense tax was called, but went over until
tomorrow. Judge Seymour arrived this
| evening on the eastern train.
DR. J. J. Mott was here to-day. He
said that it was only on private busi-
ness, and declined to talk politics. The
Doctor is a very reticent man, and as
keen as brier. He thinks that Logan
Harris statement that Judge Russell
would be the Republican candidate for
Governor was practically equivalent to
an endorsement 1t has been said that
DR.. Mott favors Charles Price, but the
Doctor says ne has no favorite.
To-day the work of putting down the
carpets in the new State building began.
Every effort will be made to get every
thing in shape for occupancy by the new
year.
Rev. Mr. Clark, the new rector of the
Church of the Good Shepherd, who sue
ceeds Rev. Mr. Strange, is expected to
preach his first sermon here next Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Strange will probably leave for
| Wilmington in few days.
W Last Wednesday night at confer
ence held in Church Street NJ. E. Church
South, in Charlotte, DR.. J. T. Bsgwell
was recommended by rising vote to re-
ceive license to preach, and the quarterly
conference licensed him, and by rising
vote the official board of Church street
church requested the presiding elder to
put him on that station for 1885, Winston
Daily.
@ The Wilmington Review of Tues
day says: There was heavy gale of wind
on the river this morning. Steamboatmen
who arrived from Southport say thakthey
have hardly ever known the river to be 80
rough as it was while they were on the
passage up this forenoon.
Sunday night, while large crowd ofcol-
ored people were in Hall at Durham hear
ing a sermon by a colored female preacher
named Hughes, a man rnshed in and
gave a fre-alarm. The scene was in
describable Men, women and children
rushed for the DOORS The people were
in a frenzied mass on the stairway.
Three men spraDg from the second-storY
window on to the sidewalk, fell, and
bounded into the gutter; yet, strange to
say, no one OF them was hurt severely.
A boy jumped and was injured internally.
The clothing was entirely stripped from
one woman in the mad scramble to get
outside, and she ran naked and screaming
down the street. When the steps were
cleared Louisa Chavis, Jennie Stephens,
and another girl we're picked up with the
breath literally trampled out of them.
Louisa Chavis has since died and the other
two are now in a critical condition. There
was no cause for the alarm and the panic.
The fire was in building separated from
the hall. 1t was easily extinguished aud
if the frightened negro had not given the
alarm no harm would have been done.
a. Commissioner of Agriculture Rob.